Improvement in wheat-drills



` W. RICE.` WHEAT DRILL,

NQ 48,4411 Patented Junez?, 1865.

4PATENT OFFICE.

wir RICE, OE CONCORD, ILLINOIs.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHEAT-DmLLs.

Specification iorming part of Lettens Patent No. 48,441, dated J une 2, 1865.

To all lcho-m 'it may concern:` v Be it known that I, WILLIAM RICE, of Concord, in the county 'ot' Morgan and' State of Illinois, have invented al new and Improved Wheat-Drill and I do hereby declare that the.

following is a full, clea,r, andl exactdeserip- Ation thereof, which will en'ablefothers skilled inthe art to make and Vuse the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this; speciticatien, in which- Figure 1 is a plan `or top, Yiew of my intention; Fig. 2, a side sectional,view'of the same,

taken in the line a: Fig. 1.

which they may pass aud,furth`er, in attaching-'the draft-pole to theframe of the machine by a joint to. admit of the ready turning of thesame, as well as freeing the furrow-cutters from grass, weeds, and other trash which are liable to clog and choke them.

A represents a rectangular frame, which is mounted on two wheels, B B, and has a draftpole, C, attached to it b y hinges or joints a a at its under side and a short distance back of its front end. ,The wheels B are near the. rear of frame A, and this -mode ot' attaching the draft-pole to itadmits of the front part of the frame being readily raised,so as to elevate the furrow-cutters aboi'e the surface of the ground ,and admit of the easy'tnrning of themachine at the ends ot'a field, &c., and also to admit of the furrow cutters being 4freed from weeds, grass, and other trash which they may gather or collect during the working ot' the machine.-

0n the frame A a seed-hopper, D, is placed," ,andprovided with any suitable seed-discharging device; and E represents aseries of oblo'n g qnadrilateral frames, the front parts of which are hung loosely and allowed to swing freely SimilarV letters ot'- reference indicate' like ou n rod, F, 'which passes through 4the frame A transversely. Each Ot' these framesE has -wheel G fitted in its rear part, ,and the pe- -rpheries of said wheels-are beveled at each side, forming a V-shaped edge, which readily penetrates into'the earth.. The wheels B B, on which the frame A is mounted, are also constructed in. the same manner.

To the front part ot each frame E there is attached a furrow-cutter., H. The front parts of these furro w-cutters are curved upward, and

,they are quiteV thin, so as to form a deep but narrow cut.. n

To therear end of the furrow-cutters H coni- .cal'tnhesl are attached to receive-the seed from the hopper D and deposit the same in the 'narrow -furrows made bythe cutters H, and at therear of the same.

The wheels G are' in line with the furrowcutters H, andthe wheels B, on which the frame A is mounted, are inline with the two side cutters, H, which are attached directly to frame A. By-this arrangement itwillbe seen that the grain, after having been deposited in 'the narrow'fnrrows H, will be pressed down into the earth and the furrows opened by the wheels G B. The seed or grain, consequently,

will be'protccted from the frost by' these fur- 4 rows, the frost not being liable, as'hitherto, to throw it out ot' .the earth, and in consequence of having the furrow-cutters attached to' separate or independent 4frames the cutters and y wheels are allowed to conform t0 the inequalities ot' surface over which they maypass,caus ing the drilling loperation .to be perfectly per- -fornied when the surface of the groundis ,nn-Y' -even. or undulating.

On the fra-meA`thedrivers seat J- isplace'd, the latter being directly back of theseed-hopperl).

I 'claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentt 'Thecombination of the main frame A, pivoted frames E E, wheels B Gjr, and furrow-cutters H, all constructed and arranged to operate as specified.

WILLIAM RICE.

Witnesses:

HARVEY W. J OHNSON, JOHN E. BAYLEss. 

